Windows 7 error: Game goes Ka-Phail when I try start a campaign

[Zacman the Damned]

I recently found my old MTW CD's lying around, so decided to install them and play them, however, whenever I choose to start a campaign, the game begins to load, but then as soon as it finishes loading it immediately opens the Pause menu, when it does this the bottom 1/10th of the screen is taken up by choppy black crap (Very fond of technical terms here XD) and if I try click resume, it loads, returns to menu, <Insert Infinite Loop Here> unless I choose to quit, the result being I don't get to play. I am running Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit (6.1, Build 7600) on a TOSHIBA Satellite L599, and 2048MB RAM. I have Direct X 11.

Any help MUCH appreciated, and if this is posted in the wrong place... Sorreh :oops:

[caravel]

1) First apply the fix in this thread: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?79500-MTW-crashing-or-getting-hung-up-on-loading-A-couple-solutions.&p=1921448&viewfull=1#post1921448

2) Create the empty text file "skipcredits.txt" and place it in your MTW directory - e.g. "C:\Program files\Medieval Total War\" or wherever you've installed the program.

Try running the game again.

:bow:

[Wytchfynder]

I did a similar thing to Zacman. stumbled across a spare MTW gold disc and box and popped it onto a Windows 7 Home Prem 32 bit U230 netbook. 2 gig ram and 128 ati dedicated graphics. Game seemed to install and load ok withoout mega delays. selected england as starting faction and as soon as i clicked on and moved an agent piece the game crashed with a message 'med tw exe has stopped working'.
This game really hates me.

[caravel]

Hello Wytchfynder,

The campaign game will always crash on any "modern system" either during loading, or randomly while in game - unless you install the button fix first.

:bow:

[Zacman the Damned]

Thanks ^^ I'll try it as soon as I next have a connection I can download off ^^